The III Percent Mission Statement: Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will
within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. ~ Thomas Jefferson
In the absence of orders, go find something Evil and kill it!
Enemies of Liberty are ruthless. To own your Liberty, you'd better come harder than your enemies..
Someone I respect more than most is Alan Mullenax. Sorry Alan, I know that is not going to help win you any new friends.
Alan speaks often of Henry Adams (my bad, thanks Alan), Hancock and Otis as being the three men who were the sine qua non for the Revolution.
With Otis and Henry (Adams), Alan explains why they were so pivotal: They had real, genuine hatred in their hearts.
When I look around today, I don't see hatred in the hearts of my Countrymen. I see some annoyance. I even see anger here and there. But what I see mostly is - meh. Whatevah.
In an email the other day someone said I was "angry".
I am not angry. That gave way to outrage long ago.
What I have now is a seething hatred.
My emotion is in check. I'm not ramming planes into IRS buildings. I'm not storming Athens, Tennessee. Heck, I'm not even speeding when I drive. I have trained for decades to channel such emotions into lucidity in confrontational situations. You might not like my direct words, perhaps they strike a bit close to home? Sometimes when I comment in dialogue, I use big-boy words. Does that offend you? I don't really give a shit.
If I'm barking, you are safe. When I stop barking...
But you know what - when I look around, I don't see hatred.
If you can't muster some good old-fashioned Fuck You hatred for people stealing 70% and more of your money and telling you what, when, where and how you may behave, and claiming ownership of your children...
That's called bending knee to lick the hand that feeds.
If a few guys don't embrace and channel that seething hatred, really soon, the window of opportunity for Liberty will close.
And if you can't muster much more then meh, well...God may forget ye were my Countryman, but I will never forget your cowardice or treason.
I'm taking the crux of this post from a comment I left on a post below.
CA appreciates the finality of arithmetic and math, as does Denninger, and I am right there with both of them - numbers may be manipulated, but they do not lie. People lie - sometimes about numbers. If you read the numbers objectively, you will arrive at a Universal Truth.
The concept is secession - and no, this is NOT an invitation to debate secession. I've taken my decision and I won't be changing my mind. These numbers support my decision - at least as I interpret the numbers. You've heard "Never try to teach a pig to sing - it wastes your time and annoys the pig"?
Well, I'm the pig, so don't annoy me.
I'm deliberately taking the word "secession" from the below rationale so you strategic and tactical thinkers can assess my position without the political baggage.
Fact: 99.9% of the bipeds on this silly spinning rock self-identify as Marxists, Leftists/Liberals/Socialists/ and every other flavor of "All your sh*t are belong to us!"
Let's just round the number to 7 billion people for the sake of easy arithmetic.
Also for the sake of this discussion, we'll simply count Americans - 313,000,000 of them.
Almost all of those people are comfortable taking your stuff, and accepting your stuff from the people who take it. (All of them - from the USA to around the world).
America remains the only piece of Earth where the concept of Individual Liberty being superior to the power of the State remains alive - though it is on life support. It never really caught on anywhere else. Even here, 99% of the population have a vested interest in keeping the status quo.
So, let's be bold and say we have 1% of American population willing to fight for individual Liberty, and you know I use Jefferson's definition of Rightful Liberty. At 313 million people, 1% works out to 3.13 million who will pick up a rifle to defend Liberty. Any realistic acceptance of that number will have to accept that most of those 3.13 millions have poor fitness, too-little gear, advanced age, limited combat experience (and if they have any at all, it was probably a while ago).
Now we have an *ahem*Army of 3.13 million Americans who will fight for DoI/BoR Liberty.
And the rest of the country, all 309,870,000 want your stuff - even the one's who simply want medi-care and such. If you are playing for Hearts & Minds from the masses for your departure - you're pissing up a rope. They want your stuff.
Now here's where those brilliant tactics and strategy come into play - your chosen battle plan for self-preservation is to move into a smaller geographic region.
[insert laughter here]
Folks, you know I think secession is Constitutional and morally sound. I simply think it is the death of Liberty in today's world. You might buy a generation or two until the Bolshies come for your posterity, but they will come, and they will win. And given their pedigree (the off-spring of those damned Liberty racist bastards!) the luckiest will end up as slave labor.
Instead of following Chamberlain, I would suggest you consider Alexander, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Ashoka, Augustus - all men who expanded for safety, not contracted.
There are Americans who could succeed at such an endeavor, drive the Enemies of Liberty from our lands, then, as did George Washington, step aside.
(Boy, can't wait for the shallow thinkers to show up. "Kerodin wants to rape, pillage and plunder across America in the name of the Constitution!" Before anyone goes that batcrap crazy, apply the premise of expansion versus contraction to be rid of the Enemies of Liberty. That is the lesson - not drowning FSA in shallow riverbeds.)
In a real CQB fight, you enter and dominate the enemy's space, then remove him from it. That premise works from the micro to the macro.
Balkanization? Certainly could happen, especially if FedGov goes bust. But that is another topic with differing parameters beyond the scope of deliberate secession. Maybe I'll write about it later.
Some men are willing to live with a boot upon their neck, so long as they be permitted to live. Some men are willing to walk away from Evil and permit it to prey upon innocent Souls, so long as the man gets to walk away - permitted to live, or at least eaten last.
I must admit that I simply can't grasp that notion - my mind simply can't comprehend such intense desire to stay alive that one would surrender every shred of dignity.
But, it exists. Indeed, it is probably the most common baseline among mankind - suffer any indignity or injustice, just let me remain alive!
I know it exists, my brain can grasp the edges of the notion, but I'd be lying if I said I could understand it on any level. Indeed, it offends me on a visceral, ancient and primitive level.
Perhaps I am the one who is less evolved? My kind tend to die younger than most, and violently. We tend to meet challenges head-on with a f*ck you attitude. I would rather die than suffer indignity of slavery. Or, perhaps, Mother Nature has simply cursed me with the Alpha 'gene'.
I have more for which to live now than ever before in life - Holly. But she and I understand that a life of humiliation or indignity is not life, it is simply waiting for death. To that end, as I have been discussing here on the blog for a while now, counting angels on pinheads is an absurd behavior.
Neither of us know our "purpose" in life, if life even has such structure. We know that we are called upon deep from within our Souls to aid our friends. We know we have an obligation to defend Liberty.
There is a shift taking place here at III Percent. Most of you have sensed it. We are leaving very soon for the Redoubt. There we will meet and greet many of you who are coming.
And to each and every one of you who seek to impede or interject yourself into my business, no more warnings will ever be issued. And don't act all surprised when you suddenly realize I'm the bastard behind you at Starbucks. We will be having a conversation.
My thanks to Grand Master Jedi Zoomie for the Josey Wales - awesome as usual. I need to find out his favorite beer, I know I owe the guy at least a pallet by now. ;)
In the classic definition of the word agenda, I freely admit that I have one in the political world.
It is very simple. Rightful Liberty. End. Period. Full stop.
The word "Communism" is a good word because it still carries negative connotations when pinging even the younger ears in our culture. But you and I know that the one, true definition of Communism is too specific to be applied to the idiots trying to run the world today. But the word still has value when applied to Enemies of Liberty because of the aforementioned negative stigma. Even the word "Collectivist" is too specific to fully define what we of Jeffersonian dogma advocate.
So I lump all of the Bad People into 3 broad categories: Reds, Those who would be Masters, & Parasites. The three often overlap, but not always. The three will devour each other, but they constantly seek fresh meat. America is entitled to be free of all three categories, and we do not need to apologize, we do not need to "...make room for those who are different..." or tolerate for a single moment the infringements upon Rightful Liberty that define such people. We are under no obligation to suffer such idiots. And we sure as hell do not need permission to be rid of such people.
I know my audience is smarter than the average bear. But we need to keep our rhetoric in sound-bite-sized-candies for the little minds that are watching, so going forward I'll be using "Better Dead than Red" quite a bit. You know I mean more than "Communists". I'll also be evolving the WWII "Kill-a-Commie-for-Mommy" meme where rhetorically relevant.
Let's face it folks, until the parasites are gone, the animal will remain sick. Simply walking away from the parasites is an answer that simply Fails under its own weight. First you do the work, then you can go out and play.
So, tomorrow, when you see the montage of parasitic vermin ruining the republic, refocus your eyes. Don't see FSA free-loader hitting up the free clinic in Kentucky for an Oxy score. Don't see eleventy baby-daddies swiping EBT cards. Don't see slicky-boy politicians with $800 shoes who bought those shoes (and matching belt) with the dollars he helped steal from your paycheck.
Don't see individuals. Make this problem as simple as it really, truly is: See Reds.
You know this blog doesn't talk just for the sake of talking - so you already know there is a plan to push the Reds into the sea... We do not have to give up one single inch of America to any Communist/Parasite/Red - ever.
I've called this online community a circle-jerk on more than one occasion, and I am not saying I haven't had my pud in my hand a few times, too.
CA made a point the other day that got lost in the noise, and I'd like to do a Churchill so it flippin' sticks:
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
A lot of writers and commenters, professional and amateurs, invest a lot of time discussing how many Angels fit upon the head of a pin on every topic, sub-topic, categories of sub-sub-topics, ad infinitum, relating to the way America is, should be, and will be.
The point CA made rather simply was: Let's win, first.
May I hear an Amen?
For those of you who claim some sort of paralysis because, without some framework or roadmap in place, we can surely never get from here to there, try this roadmap - it was in effect on the day I was born, and it has NOT been revoked: This is America. When I was born, my father, his brothers, their fathers, and on back, all had blood on their hands and said "Boy, this is your country, from sea to sea and coast to coast, and wherever you want to go in this country, you go, because we have spilled blood - some of ours, some not ours - to make sure you can go anywhere you want with the Rights of an American unquestioned by any man."
I may be paraphrasing a bit - it was long ago and it was probably awkward, what with afterbirth and messiness everywhere. Also, I hadn't learned English yet. But don't get hung up on details.
That is the standard I intend to follow until someone kills me. This is my country, paid for with the blood of better men than I, and they did NOT do what they did so that my Constitutional Rights could end at the borders of New York or California - even if some of my fellow Countrymen decide they are willing to barter those "Rights" away for me. They do NOT have that authority. No man on this continent has the authority to barter away ANY of my Natural Rights on this soil. Period. Such a man who tries is as much an enemy as the man claiming I have lost said Rights. He'd better shoot me in the back or the face rather than try and convince me I should yield.
But, let's circle back to CA's suggestion that we win the fight before we start fussin' over details.
See the bull at the top of the post? Right now he's looking at you and your lasso thinking something along the lines of "Funny, I don't feel like I'm dinner just yet..." The bull always has a vote.
You may want to kill the bull and start slaughtering him up before pulling spices out of the cupboard...
Seems 'lil Mikey Vanderboegh has a genuine psychotic obsession with me these days - it seems I keep him up all night, pounding on his keyboard, spittle speckling his screen as he is simply unable to get me out of his head.
I think I've been on his front page about a dozen times in as many days. Today I am there with Pete from WRSA! Not bad company from my perspective, but it sure won't help Pete's rep much.
Does Alabama have a Mental Health program that can do an intervention for Mike?
Dude, in all seriousness, get help or eat a bullet.
But Mike! I did you a solid - I did take the time to give you a little food for that Kerodin obsession, here. Bon appetit.
...then under what set of Rules do we exist, and should we exist?
96% of you, in the poll at right, say Rule of Law is dead.
82% of you in the poll beneath agree that you are personally ready to participate in a black-bag-a-commie-for-mommie Op. (queue Jedi Zoomie for commie-bashing, boot-stomping, knife-in-neck style propaganda... ;)
In the poll below that 94% of you re-affirm RoL is dead, and it is time to respond in kind.
Now, don't get me wrong. I know these polls are not even close to scientific, and the pool of people answering those polls are of a shared and non-mainstream political worldview.
But, does it matter, even one little bit, that the people answering the polls, in such overwhelming affirmation that it is time to go to work, represent such a small percentage of the populace? It didn't matter to Sam Adams and his boys on the docks. It didn't matter to Patrick Henry or most of the others who gave birth to this republic. I continue to use III%, but you and I know damned well George Washington could never put 3 percent of modern Americans in the field today, and if he did, they'd frag his arse before nightfall. I know damned well how truly few we are - and every one of you is worth a thousand of them, or more. I choose you. We'll call it III Percent, and we'll work with what we've got.
So now what you need to think about, very seriously, in the dead of night when you are not able to sleep, in that very quiet place in your own mind where you do not even allow your husband or wife of fifty years to enter: If Rule of Law is dead, that means that the rules which governed our upper-paleolithic hunter-gatherer aunties and uncles are in effect. (They always have been, but that's a topic for another cheery day.) That means you can't trust anyone to treat you fairly, under any circumstances. It means that when you are stopped by LEO, he may choose to put his M4 in your face, because he can. He may shoot your toy poodle, because he can. Banks can simply hold your money, because they can. If you make it to court, you will lose, because the Rule of Law is dead and the Rule of Man is in play. They will win because they can.
What has changed since Heller and MacDonald, in real terms, regarding 2A? 2A has lost ground in every major Blue state in the republic (the states that elect Presidents), 2A has lost the biggest fight since 1934 in the Obamacare "Prohibited Persons" designation which is already expanding the number of "Prohibited Persons" via "Mental Health" and has your doctor reporting to Herr Wolf. And people are braying for secession, as if those Blue areas will never choke them off economically, starve them like Ukrainians, and then move in and take those precious guns from cold, dead, famine-clenched hands before re-claiming the valuable land.
If you believe in your heart that Rule of Law is dead, are you going to continue to live under what they decree to be "Law"?
If not, then you'd better have your war-face on. You'd better have your Go Bag and tools of war with you, every moment. Because when they confront you, whether at your home, at your office, on the subway, in email from some local bureaucracy, at the pizza place for lunch, or on a traffic stop, their Law gives them the Right to kill you, where you stand or sit. They do not need a reason.
Personally, I only see one way to return the Rule of Law in America - mother*ck those bastards so badly they BEG to reinstate the genuine Rule of Law to protect themselves from us.
But we decide when, and if, that happens - not them. Crying "OK! We surrender!" is a suckers move, and if you stop then, you are just laying the ground for your kid or grandkid to have to face it all over again.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time and you had best un-fuck yourself.
Some of you know that handsome devil on sight, more by name: Israel at the Steel I Beam.
The lovely ladies are Kandy (his wife) and Zaydra (their daughter) and they are standing in the boutique they own in their home town.
This is what we do as Americans - we build businesses and we provide for ourselves and our families, and we raise great kids who know what it means to be responsible, and loved.
Israel is an example for every III Patriot reading this blog.
I'm going to stop writing now, because I have a special place in my hard candy shell for Israel.
Folks, Holly and I are filled with gratitude to each and every one of you who have found a way to support our efforts going forward in Idaho.
My wife is who she is, and she will be writing to each and every one of you - so please don't think we've simply chosen not to say thank you. A simple thank you here online doesn't even come close to how we feel.
And when you come to town to vacation and camp out - come in and train with me. That always makes my heart happy.
I am convinced that Rule of Law is dead in America.
Team Evil is murdering Americans by the thousands per year (I saw 5,000 LEO killings of civilians the other day, in the last year alone). The optics are dropped. Raw power rules, not reason or debate or logic.
So, my question is simple:
Is it time for Enemies of Liberty to begin being found taped to Liberty Poles again? Is it time for Tax Men and their bureaucratic modern siblings to be found in the modern equivalency of tar and feather? Is it time to start treating Enemies of Liberty to the Governor Hutchinson remedy?
I added a poll at right in case you don't want to put your name on the line.
I also encourage people to answer in the comments section.
When Rule of Law is dead, civility is a death sentence for good people.
Sure - you can be a Republican Mayor - here, wear these!
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Days after a Republican was elected mayor of Annapolis, City Council members say they will revisit legislation that would strip the mayor’s office of much of its power.
The optics have been dropped.
It is now a simple coronation as our local and national politburos are being ordained.
Lying to yourself will make no difference.
Rule of Law is dead. If you continue to live by laws that bind you, I say this as politely as I can manage, you are an idiot.
If you have a problem with Veterans, fuck you and leave.
This is not going to be a "Thank you, Vets" post.
We are beyond that. You and I live in shame. We are shameful, and we tolerate ourselves in that shame.
According to the head of the NYC food bank, 40% of American veterans need help to eat enough food.
If that fact alone isn't enough to make you want to leave your home and start hitting those people with hammers who are destroying this country and making this happen - fuck you, too.
I'm about done being ashamed and blaming others for all of the bad, shameful things in this nation. It's time to simply remove those "others" from the controls of society.
PLEASE look at the two posts immediately below this one.
I called for a new, modern Liberator so we can put a boomstick in EVERY hand when the time becomes necessary.
The next day, I woke and found the post immediately below from WiscoDave - BOOM!
If we need to change the world in the favor of Liberty, how better but to put a flesh-driller in the hand of EVERY good-guy in America for under $90 retail???
Put your thinking caps on guys - I KNOW we have the smarts in this audience to design a modern, simple, effective, safe Liberator on every CNC in America.
For our engineers and savvy Patriots, and anyone who wants to tinker:
Often III Arms announcements are released here because it is the biggest audience we have unless I ask WRSA for a favor.
As most of you know US Army PsyOps built millions of .45 ACP Liberator pistols to be dropped to French Resistance fighters to use against the occupying Germans. The little gun was a master-stroke of simplicity for accomplishing a very specific task. It is a single-shot. The action is manually operated, and the spent casing was pushed from the end of the barrel with a (supplied) wooden dowel. A few extra .45 ACP rounds were stored in the pistol grip.
The concept was simple: The Partisan palmed the Liberator and found a German sentry late in the night and got close using guile or tradecraft, busted a .45 cap in his arse, then took the German's weapons and ammo - then got the heck out of Dodge before other Germans arrived. He'd then pass the Liberator to the next unarmed Partisan who would repeat the process.
III Arms: The next item on the company agenda is a modern Liberator. Forget the shape and engineering details of the original - this is a chance to make the Liberator in your image. A few specs: It must remain single-shot. It must have a space for extra rounds. It must be SIMPLE to operate and build. It MUST be 100% buildable on a CNC machine. It must have a retail price-point that allows most anyone to afford one - Team Leaders should be able to buy them by the dozens to hand out when SHTF to all those folks who never prepped. I would recommend you use current barrel blanks - it comes pre-rifled and you can cut it to whatever length you wish. Personally, I'd thread the end of the barrel for a small suppressor, but that's just me. The fewer the parts, the better. It should be intuitive to operate so ANYONE can find one and put it into the ear of a regime thug and take his gear kit.
It MAY NOT use stampings. Remember - EVERY component (except barrel blanks) must be able to build on a CNC - this way Patriots anywhere with even a hobby-level CNC can build one in their basement.
The design needs to look like a small pistol - nothing camo'd as a ball-point pen or other item.
NOTE: Do NOT get into trouble with ATF by building prototypes in your basement! Use drawings, please.
Ammo choices: I'm a .45 ACP guy. But let's be serious - if the idea is to get within contact range, you don't need that much kick or noise. At buckle-to-buckle range, I'm as deadly with a .22LR as with the .45 ACP. But design is up to you. Building in multiple calibers is pretty simple once the design is worked out.
What's in it for you?
First: You will be contributing to the preservation of Liberty.
Second: The winning designer will be presented unit number 1 - which will become very valuable.
Third: The winning designer will receive 10% of the net sales of all III Arms Liberators sold, until you are dead. If you designate an heir, that person will get your dividends once you are gone. (I am a hardcore Free Enterprise guy - I believe Americans should get paid for their work.)
What's next: Design your Liberator. You do NOT have to make blueprint-quality drawings - Miller is a smart guy and he can work from pretty good sketches. But make sure your drawings are as good as you can make them. Make sure your drawings are complete - he can't read minds. Include dimensions. If you are able to send him computer versions of your design, I think his life gets much, much easier.
So, for all of you mechanically capable Patriots who feel that maybe you can't contribute as much as you'd like - here's your chance. Design a modern Liberator and help real Americans kill commies for mommy.
Submit ALL designs to: information@IIIArmsCompany.com If you are going to submit paper designs, I'll give you an Idaho address for submissions in the near future.
This contest will run through the winter. It begins now and ends March 21 (Springtime). Jim Miller may get designs early and decide to build prototypes. He may not. Jim is Jim and he'll do what he feels is best for the project.
Legal notice: Submitting your design gives exclusive rights to III Arms Company to produce the prototype/design you submit and the company holds those rights until the contest is officially over. You may NOT submit to any other company. The winner is obligated to accept the above terms. If your design is NOT chosen as the winner, all rights immediately revert back to you, in full.
Game on, folks. Let's bring the Liberator into RevWarIII.
You know Holly and I are heading to Idaho to help lay the ground in the Redoubt for those who are coming to weather the storm. You know I hope to make it as easy as possible for III Patriots to assimilate into the area, and to help as many as possible get businesses up and running to invigorate the local economy, and work with our allies in the area who are building Farmer's Markets, et cetera.
I asked this a week or so ago, and I think too many of you were afraid to weigh in. Please give me your 2 cents on this one: What else do you think I should be doing to advance Liberty?
Do you want me to plan to travel next summer and continue CQB training classes for those who need it? This knits us together as a wide-ranging Team, which is at least as valuable as the training.) Do you want me to put my energy into trying to build some sort of training entity that will get people like Mosby, Culper, JC Dodge, Max and others to more people? (That'll take real money, so get ready to help me with answers on that front if you want me to go that way)
I had once thought we could get bigger money into the Liberty Movement, from Koch-esque groups - I was wrong. That ain't going to happen.
Any money we are going to generate, we are going to do from our own paychecks. And folks, that is NOT enough.
I've talked logistics recently, but there is nothing I can do to help set up a regional or national logistics network without cashflow, so that's a non-starter.
So, here's my most important question of the day: What do you think I should do for the next year to advance the Liberty Movement? With the right people and support we all busted our butts and we got IIIGear, III Arms and even the Citadel with tangible realities in a year. Should I focus on making those projects bigger?
You know I'll be offering CQB and MMA in Idaho for anyone who travels in, but when warm weather returns, we need to make progress.
Should I move to consolidate the III on a political level?
No matter how off-beat you may think your idea - I need some guidance.
Because I promise you: I have my own plan in mind, and most of you don't want me going there.
